A gentleman in a letter to Lord Germaine, relative to some captures at sea says, ー "I observe by the public papers, that Sir Jos. Yorke had instructions to remonstrate strongly to the States General on the conduct of their Governor of St. Eustatia, in not only admitting American privateers into the road, but even suffering them to make captures almost under the guns of the Fort. To the latter complaint I happened to be an eye witness of the only circumstance that is brought to support the charge, namely, the taking a brig belonging to Dominica by an American privateer, called the Baltimore Hero; but I can with truth assure your Lordship, that so far from the vessel being taken near Fort Orange, that she was taken going round St. Kitt's, within a league of Sandy Point; and I am positive the Dutch Governor could no more prevent the capture, than if she had been taken off the Western Islands. In respect . to their being admitted into the Road, it is what the Governors of Martinico, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and St. Domingo, unanimously do. The Danes at SL Croix go still farther; they even furnish false clearance to the American nierchant vessels, to screen them from the men of war. I myself saw two vessels loaded with rice, &c. bound toSt. Eustatia, taken by the Hind, released through means ofthese clearances."
